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Angela Faris Belt and Collin Parson
What began as a hard drive crash that distorted thousands of her images, Angela Faros Belt reconstructs into brilliantly flawed mashups. Collin Pason has his own approach to distortion in selective black wall sculptures. More...


Tomas Ochoa
The environment, race and the southern border are among the themes expressed in monochromatic paintings and rooted in personal experience. More...


The Beauty/Truth Problem
James Tissot forsook the family business, resulting in his father cutting him off, in favor of pursuing a career as an artist. That career took off, to the chagrin of his father but to the benefit of a legion of collectors and fans. More...


Gina Adams
Gina Adams’ visceral, multilayered mixed media works reflect an artist coming to terms with the harm done to her Native American ancestors. More...


Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade chemically treats sheets of glass to becoming color-shifting mirrors. Orbs are place so as to appear at times whole, other times bisected, their color changing as you walk around the installation. More...


“Altered States”
The four artists featured in "Altered States" reflect upon the morbid beauty of our civilization's effort to fulfill doomsday prophecies. More...


Scott Johnson
"Fissure" is both a geological and social term. Scott Johnson shakes up our understanding of materials and perception of space with seemingly simple installations that make the earth move under our feet. More...


Turning Guns into Art
David S. Rubin shows how a number of artists are making creative and effective statements on the issue of gun control in a variety of ways. It is a theme that has been raised for decades, never more than at the present moment, one in which gun reform may be more within reach than ever. More...


“Solidarity, Struggle, Victory”
"Solidarity, Struggle, Victory" draws on the history of organized labor and protest and how that history is inspiring many contemporary artists. What we see is that hope continues to emerge out of uncertainty. More...


Rodrigo Valenzuela
In photographs of studio constructions Rodrigo Valenzuela draws on both early modernist references a immigration narratives. More...


Emily Matyas
Emily Matyas photographic reflections on the intimate relationship between Mexico and the U.S. are both lucid and moving. More...


One Sculpture Renews a Museum's Story
A single sculpture by Richard Hunt, recently placed in a key location, recasts the story of the Art Institute of Chicago, More...


Igor Melnikov
Ogpr Melnikov's paintings of emotionally ambiguous young children with large, searching eyes and lightly flushed cheeks are a probing psychological exploration of the soul. More...


Mary Ann Peters
Images that express feelings of erasure and diaspora have informed Mary Ann Peters' work for years. In "traveler" paintings could be faded old photographs. It all feels unsteady, wavering, and empathic of what an immigrant seeking asylum experiences. More...


Enrique Martinez Celaya
His exhibition title, "The Tears of Things," Enrigue Martinez Celaya tells us, is a line extracted from Virgil's "The Aeneid." The bronze sculpture that opens the show features water pumped fountain-like from the figure's eyes. More...


Gladys Nilsson
The female figure, in the hands of Gladys Nilsson, undulates with distorted scale and physicality that overwhelms a cast of Lilliputian men. More...


Luis Gonzalez Palma
Complex interior and exterior worlds collide with Luis González Palma. Steering between portraiture and abstractions created using various photographic methods, he masterfully combines the romantic and the mysterious. More...


AIDS Art to Queer Art in the Northwest
Matthew Kangas examines the subtle but distinct transition from art in the age of AIDS to contemporary Queer Art. More...


Reuben Wu
The basis of Reuben Wu’s archival pigment prints is traditional and expertly executed landscape photography. The pure awesomeness of geography is favored over notions of place, with the key addition of light carrying drones that add geometric shapes in and around the landscape subjects. More...


Cody Trepte
Cody Trepte's installation, "By Any Possibility," evades categorization, drawing as it does from the conceptual and the visceral. More...

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